This year, Bailey was selected as one of 10 students receiving the Paul W. Burleson, M.D. Scholarship, a philanthropic gift which covered the cost of attendance for his fourth year.
In this special article, Selwyn Vickers, M.D., FACS, dean of the School of Medicine, talks about his heritage, the foundation of family, and growing up in the Black Belt during the Civil Rights Movement.
Medical students to show creative side virtually at The Best Medicine Show on March 5
Written by Kendra Carter
Black History Month, Part 2: UAB’s first Black/African American students in medicine
Written by Mary Ashley Canevaro
The first Black/African American students at UAB who enrolled in a medical program included Wilma Ann Barnes, Samuel William Sullivan, Jr., and Richard Charles Dale.
David Kimberlin, M.D., co-director of the Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, answers questions on COVID-19 and vaccines concerning children.
On Jan. 25, 2021, an EF-3 tornado hit the northern Jefferson County city of Fultondale, including the home of Arnoldo Vasquez and trapping him under a tree. UAB’s Emergency Department was on the scene for help and performed a field amputation of Vasquez’s leg above the knee.